{"id":60275,"date":"2016-09-14T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60275"},"modified":"2017-02-09T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T03:36:13","slug":"open-letter-to-every-single-movie-ticket-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60275","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Every Single Movie Ticket Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: the owners of every single movie ticket website
\nFrom: Mitchell Berg, cranky consumer
\nRe: Huh?<\/p>\n

All,<\/p>\n

I went out on your website \u2013 which one doesn’t matter, because you’re all pretty much the same – last night to try to buy a ticket to “Sully”.<\/p>\n

Ticket prices are insane \u2013 I get that.<\/p>\n

But below the ticket price, you added a two dollar “convenience fee”.<\/p>\n

For two dollars, I’ll stand in the line for 40 seconds. I shut off the browser and went to the Riverview Theater to see “Blazing Saddles”.<\/p>\n

But I had a brilliant idea. Stop charging the “convenience fee” to buy the ticket. But start selling concessions online, have them ready at a “will call” window for concessions when I get there, and I will pay the two dollars not to stand in line for my damn popcorn..<\/p>\n

See to this.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: the owners of every single movie ticket website From: Mitchell Berg, cranky consumer Re: Huh? All, I went out on your website \u2013 which one doesn’t matter, because you’re all pretty much the same – last night to try to buy a ticket to “Sully”. Ticket prices are insane \u2013 I get that. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-60275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60296,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60275\/revisions\/60296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}